Friday, February 24, 2012

Trees again

Here is a bunch of images from our current work on new trees - we are trying to have more variety in types of vegetation that you can meet along the road in different parts of the map.

You will most likely never see the new trees at this density though, this was an experiment that looked great and felt great on a high-end 3D graphics card, but we are reminded again and again that we should strive to support reasonably well even quite old graphics cards. So we have to make a lot of compromises between how things could look and how they end up looking because of performance considerations.

I really hope that waht you guys wrote in the news become thruth because I don't have a much powerful graphic card and to have fluid experience with GTS I had to put vegetation details on low! My bad feeling with too much higher request for play ETS2 it's raising every time I see those beutifuls screenshots and the awesome videos of this marveolus game...I'm really worried about that and waiting like no other time before a demo for calming (or maybe agree) my fears about that...at this time I can only cross my fingers!By the way, keep the good work scs!!!

Actually I have a notebook with these features:CPU Intel i7Graphic card NVIDIA Geforce 610M with 2gb dedicated4 gb of ram

but GTS at 1440x900 don't run on all high details...to have a fluid framerate I had to put antialiasing at 8x, low details on vegetaion and reflections but I can conserve high details on textures that it's so important for me!This is why I'm so worried about this new game...I don't think that my notebook can run such a magnificent that sc show us! :(

I think the processor it's good about frequency but the graphic card it's not to powerful, even if the want to sell it for a 2 gb dedicated NVIDIA :D ! By the way, it's a notebook, not the best machine to do pc gaming...this is why I hope that ETS2 it isn't too heavy: I haven't got euros for another pc :D

Very good indeed, the graph of the game is awesome, and big changes I noticed was this dense fog, mirrors have greater angle of view inside the cabin, the entire interior was remodeled, compared to previous editions, the loads are more realistic, , the GPS showed you a while ago.

But please, at the beginning we work with the towing of other companies that we carry, but over time be able to buy our own trailer, like I have a trailer, closed, so whenever you download wait type, about 2 hours (the hours they run the game) and continue with the same trailer, and that the same thing when loading some cargo, the type so enclosed trailer, load, and so, got money in the game, we will buy other types of trailer, type, which is used in these pictures, maybe buckets, among other ...

But good job for the whole team, this is a great achievement of the company.

Great news again SCS, the interior view just killed me.. fog and the GPS just finished what the interior view begin :X .. splendid work as aways, Keep up ! Hope to see news about the new game soon tough.

Oh and .. consider the low graphic cards, but don't forget the high ones too, I got one Nvidia GT 430 and I'm dying to play ETS2 on alien graphics !

Nvidia GT 430 is decidedly a LOW END card. Don't be confused by the fact that it's 4xx series chip - in each generation, the spectrum from low end to high end differs wildly in performance, and GT 430 is definitely just an entry-level performer in its generation.

SCS a nice surprise giving this info, didn't know that about my vid card.. I was thinking about to get a GTX 560 but I allready got it on my other comp with Wind 7 .. so I asked which should I pick up for Wind XP and several people told me the GT 430 is a nice decision, so I did buy it .. games like TDU2 Crysis 2 and NFS: The Run are going on Gamer graphics.. I think you should add an option to increase and lower graphics so we could bring the vid cards to the test > : ) ... Again rly nice info you gave me there :)

Positively splendid looking, SCS! Would of course be nice to have the option to bump up the density of trees for those with a more powerful machine, but yes, the more that can actually run the game without lag the better.

On a small side note, hope to see female driver in some picture soon-ish. (c:

Trees are perfect; I agree with anonymous above, scalable auto-gen of vegetation/trees density is great idea. I, on the opposite side, have not so good computer and there is probably slight chance to buy better this year. So maybe I would be happy to set density very low and others, who have hi-end machines, could enjoy full environment.

Just make snow textures on very deep bump map .. change physics to make slippery roads and invisible snow reactions on suspension, but snow will be just textures, and wheels leave traces.. you can see that on some games... sry for eng.

No need for 2 meters of snow on the road,they can put a falling snowflakes(like rain) and white snow textures of ground,road,trees,maybe a little slower vehicle performance...eg.When the snow starts falling that all normal textures automatic changes in winter,snowy textures and we wait until they load,or that they change/load while we sleep...that not interferes us while driving.

@SNOWMAN: that's sound good to me! But I little bit unrealistic for a simulator...One moment we have snow and after a few hours puff...it's vanishing!!! This happen several times here in Italy (the place from I write :D) but I think that's a little bit impossible for Poland or maybe Germany or other northern countries! But I repeat, your idea it's the much easy to do and maybe can be a good solution...

Those screens are just fabulous! The nature is so beautiful and it feels so real :) Once again you did an awesome job, keep spoiling us with such nice screens! And the fog effect is so cool! Finally the driving is more challenging! Now we have this thickness of fog, I assume we can also use fog-lights right?!

A question not related to this post but just curiosity. So far during the updates shown here we've seen multiple screens about tractors but(correct me I've I'm wrong) I didn't saw a Iveco Stralis yet?! In the previous episodes of the game we had the opportunity to drive that tractor too, is it removed from the game or yet under construction?! :)

Thanks SCS, keep spoiling us please, it makes the waiting slightly more bearable!

Wow those are some really nice trees SCS! I would recommend having an option for trees, but that may be too difficult to do, but do it if you can. The scenery is fantastic, your game is going to sell very well! Keep the good work up, and don't worry about not posting as often, if you're too busy then postpone it.

SCS one suggestion to you please in rainy season make roads wet and water flow off from roads and also include hailstone which breaks very less amount of glass of the truck. Include realistic police when over speed such that they chase us down and last but not the least include money collection at the toll such that all the vehicles should stop and give the money to toll keeper (MEN) sitting inside the toll. These are quite Some tips to make the game REAL

What i dont see on the picure and i want to ask. if you drive on interiour camera did you see little fog clouds on the front lights? That would look a little bit more realistic :-). But i dont know how much time it costs to create these little fogclouds...

I know, SCS you are trying to appeal to a wider amount of people, even those with low end computers, but please don't go too low. I would love to play this game at incredible graphics on my Geforce GTX 560 Ti and i5 processor.

I don't think that there'll be several maps with different vegetation density, because the map looks completely man made. Still I am hoping for some snow in the Alps and later map add-ons for other mountainous parts of Europe like the Pyrenees.

You might consider a poll on this blog to find out on what kind of computer the average joe is playing your games on. I guess it'll be biased towards high end machines, for the simple fact that people like to brag, but it might be better than nothing.

Intel core Quad 2.8GhzRam 4GBNvidia Geforce GT220 1GBWill it work? :)Had problem with:GTS - Lag when in townT&T - Lag everywhereGames that work fine:GTA IV - No lag on full detailsTDU2 - Same as GTABattlefield 3 - Works but not on full detailsIdk lolz O.o

I have Ati HD4850 512MB and GTS has good fps on max settings .. and hey, don't matter on graphic card MEMORY!!! but on graphic chip (256Mb is also powerful then 2GB same GPU) you cant know in specification how powerful is graphic card.

Make the graphics so they auto detect the power of your computer. So then players with high end cards can have the best detail and the other players who insist on playing on old out dated computers can have low end graphics.

I agree that the game is perfect, and I remember that they said that something will be surprise, so they wont discover all the features until release of the game, and I like that decision. GPS on dashboard, really cool ;)

JUST DONT GO TOO LOW ON GRAPHICS.WE WHO ARE A REAL PC ENTHUSIAST, WHO HAD THE PC's woth about 4000$+ WANT TO ENJOY THE GRAPHICS. Option for extreme graphics will be really nice.

All the foilage looks much better compared to GTS, I think the lag we had there had to do with new areas being loaded. As others have said, please don't compromise too much in favor of low-end graphic computers, or have optional settings/install options.

Like other posters i'd suggest have different terrain settings. People with lower end setups can opt to have less foilage density while high end players can have the stunning detail shown above... although this doesn't look at all like the UK but hey, i'm just knit picking.

My computer is already getting old, but for now is running Battlefield 3, FIFA 12 on a top pick ...But every gamer needs to change machine, and in my case, I'll trade in a few months at least before the game's release.I'm already choosing an optimal configuration, Intel I7 2600, 8GB, 1TB, GTX 570 ...But please put this as an option to pick, for people who have a computer ready to run at maximum with the best graphics of the game supported, but also put an option for people with low graphic computers 'weak' or old, so for all people buy and have fun with the game, regardless of the graph.

Hi SCS Leutzu01 is calling again!! I really appreciate what you did with this amazing game.I like the fog effect and the trees effect and i like that the warning lights on the trailers work great and I hope that the warning lights for the truck will work like the warning lights for the trailer like: when you deliver the diesel or dangerous goods they also work and i want to do you the same thing with the fog lights on the truck and on the trailer. You know: add some fog lights on the trailer to see them better like: when you activate the fog lights for the truck, the fog lights on the trailer will work the same with the fog lights of the truck and also if you could add an application which detects head movements would be great indeed. I know that you have an application or exist on the internet that does this thing. I think it's calld "TrackIR" hope that you could add her on the game.About with the minimum video requirements i'm not happy because i own an nvidia 8500gt and i don't have money to spend on a better gpu so i hope that my 512 mb gpu can handle pretty well with this awesome game so think to a low end machine to adapt the game even morecould you also add some oversized load and work on the fog lights would be very great for the players and also if you could add some sensors for the truck like: when the rain starts the wipers go on and when the rain become worse the speed of wipers will rise a bit for better cleaning the windscreen and when the rain stops the wipers go off automatically and the light sensor also will be great like when you drive the truck on the sunset they activate also automatically when it detects the lights become darker and darker when the time pass and also you could add some features on this sensor as well like when you drive the truck alone on the dark roads he activates the high-beam light and when he detects nearby vehicules or the opposite ones it returns on the low-beam lights to not "blind" them and when you become alone it activates the high-beam lights and about the lights system could you add some adaptive headlights which makes the light beam to move in curves to see more better the road. this kind of light system exists on modern trucks I think.I upload a link bellow with this kind of adaptive headlights to make you more clearly about my wish. I know that is on a car and not on a truck but it would be great to add it at the lighting system of the truck and last but not least if you could add an effect of the light beam of the headlights would be phenomenal such as seeing it through the rain drops, fog and why not even into the night.About the effect of the rain we should see wet roads, bumps filled with water, water which drains on the road, from the trailer, truck, wet tires and other things.Don't get me wrong I like the effect of rain but we want to see more kinds of rain effect http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49B36pUI3CMI really appreciate your awesome work and I hope you could understand me i want to add these wishes because i think that they are awesome for this game and i hope that they are achievable as well. So i really want you to work on my wishes especially on the fog lights system from the truck and to the trailer system too because they helping us to see them more clearly and if you could work at the sensors would be also very great i think. And if you work on the sensors we can buy them on the service truck and you could create a submenu like "Safety features" for the "Accessories" menu you know what i meanSAME ROMANIAN GUY SRRY FOR MY BAD ENGLISH BUT I WROTE IT NOT USING GOOGLE TRANSLATE ;)

Unfortunately, the game will not run satisfactorily on what was an entry level card of the 8xxx series 5 years ago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_8_Series). Sorry, the card will not be officially supported.Either we push the graphics quality forward, or we would have to stick with 18 Wheels of Steel level of detail/graphics.

Here's a bit info about the Nvidia series:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForceRead it and you'll understand wich vic card will work and wich not.. I found mine Entry-Level GT430 wich I think will work good on low and medium .. Go read it !

Congratulations SCS programmers, you do very good job with this game. As each player, there are some things that would be nice to be added (if and when this is possible) for example:-Options from the menu for choosing the weather, with corresponding handling and braking [easy (sunny weather, night and Normal), medium(some rain during day and night),hard(at north countries snowing/raining,and frost at night)],and in case of snow coming out of option, to put chains on tires with low speed limit to avoid burst tires-The option to be able to see at some point the screen, the hour, day, month and year. And depending on the month, there is the appropriate time.- In ETS1 cars are fast acting and strange (fast, as hard braking, and strange as hard braking within the highway for no reason, or brake when leaving the highway). it could just be like this. When you want to change lanes with a flash of right, no need to stop the car to change lanes but from the third to fourth car behind us to slow down (no bone) so you can prioritize the lane.-option of regulating the amount traffic we want but always calculated in order to manage to deliver the cargo, and in case of accidents added time to deliver cargo.Traffic levels :[easy(few cars/trucks),medium(normal number of cars/trucks),hard(right lane full of trucks, the two other full of cars)]- It would be most useful to see more traffic signs, because there are very few and difficult to drive, increasing the penalty.-Some accident option would be nice too,like leakage of oil,or engine's liquid leak,or flat tire etc.-would be nice to have option for hitchhiking, at gas stations to be some people who after a short dialogue to be asked if you want to go to a city that is in your way (with a choice yes / no),and during the journey talking to you (a way to avoid sleepy fast)-also in gas stations and resting places are always empty place, it would be nice to see and other drivers putting petrol making us wait in a queuethat is not available seat to sleep and have to go to another place of rest-I have not yet seen the video a related article on full analysis of what has the ETS2 butcities are very few buildings and deserted, it's nice to see people walking on the pathways,pavements and wait at traffic lights to get across.As well as cars, that is to be placed on companies that want to get to us and we make it difficult to maneuver in order to unload the cargo.And still there are people at the gate of each company and 1-2 employees that will help us to maneuver.-Also something that we saw in the truck and trailers were tolls, something which must exist, as well as for taxation of money for insurance company in case of accidents.-As well as bridges go up and down the highways, crossing of trains on country roads.-and finally, it was very good (through choice in the game) to become an accident in direct visual contact (such as a landslide, subsidence of the road, etc) where should we react properly and to avoid collision with car. if it could be watched police to coordinate the traffic in case of works in the street, an ambulance in case of accident.

I know that all this is very difficult to make because they want a lot of work, but it's just things that happen on highways.Congratulations again on such an excellent job.

Like others have said, I think it would be best if you have an option or a slider that adjusts the terrain scenery for the game. This game just looks too beautiful for some of it to be held back due to low-end PC's. Just my opinion ;)

Road looks pretty rainy'm real. In wet indeed be somewhat improved physics engine, which doetneun Probably nothing / / the other side of the vehicle's headlights at night time line I would hope the light is strong. On the road Headlights of the vehicle as I had ever laid eyes on a fairly bright when applied in such a game be good for more ...

SCS.I think it is not wise to show things that you not intend to put into this game,overhyped game can cause too high expectations and finally disappointment,some things just need to keep in secret.Now people is worrying if they have enough strong pc...who cares for trees this is not a forest simulator.Rather show us some new or upcoming improvements from this game,and what else you intend to put in game...before it is too late.

On a three lane motorway:Small Road Work (50-200 meters, one lane occupied)Medium Road Work(200-500 meters, one or two lane occupied)Large Road Work (500+ meters, two or/and three lane + lane diverted to oncoming traffic)

It would be great too, if we could see electronic tablesLike this:http://www.swarco.com/var/em_plain_site/storage/images/media/images/swarco-traffic-hungaria/vjt/p1040222/72094-1-eng-US/P1040222_795x530px.jpg

And if the storms would look like this:http://my-funspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/lithgowbig.jpg

Suggestions: 1. The road sides should be lots of moorland like grass, rather than just trees and long grass, it's more realistic, and doesn't need as high system specs. 2. Please sort out the slip roads, it's not a huge request, is it? 3. Be able to select the weather (eg, foggy, rainy sunny etc) and intensity of the weather. And by the way, ignore people with huge requests such as real trailers, don't throw your money away on things like that. People that complain about the small details, are obviously real life truckers, so why they are playing truck simulators, I don't know.

These truckers would play the game whilst on a driving break.They think realistic trailers would be cool.When the game comes out,if you want me to do a specific trailer skin for you contact either me or my 2 admins on Facebook Page UKTS Haulage and skinning assistance

everyone asking for SCS improve the game and now people want to play new genaretion games with old GPU....c`mom guys its dont make sense and asking for better physics and still playing with keyboard, mouse joystick...lol...some time i dont believe. Peaple from good european countrys crying because dont have money, go find a job...lots o immigrants is working...france, england, germany, spain, portugal, italy, czek, lithuania, swedem netherlands, holland and etc...i know nobody want to start with litle money and hard work...right?

SCS i think that everybody want to know in which graphic card...ect. pc ETS2 will be played. I don't have any problem with my graphics card...ect. but i think that the next post should be something about this.

Hi SCS Leutzu01 Is calling again for more wishes and i hope that they are achievable as well.First of my wishes: could you modify the practicality of semaphores in intersections in cities such as to add some timers above them and make them work only for a single lane of the intersection like when you go for the turn right or left they should work only for that lane and not all semaphores should work at the same time even if you steer left or right in the intersection. The next type of light traffic that i want to see is a traffic light which works with flashing green light for turn right or left and also I would like to add traffic lights with flashing yellow lights for pedestrian crossings also what i want with the traffic lights is to be switched off on the 12 PM o'clock or choose when they will be switched off and when they are switched off the light will only work on the yellow flashing and you will respect the rules of priority or other rules. I met this problem in older versions of games and did not liked. That is why I would like to be able to make you work on this type of problem and try fixing it.I will upload some pictures of some semaphores at the bottom of my comments to make you more clearly about this problemSecond if we have a 512 mb gpu we can still run this game but with low settings right or i'm wrong because you told us that the 8xxx series of gpus will not run satisfactorly for most players so it might be we can run this game but with low settings i hope because you did marvelous job with this game Third could you add some pedestrians because in "Truck & Trailers" game it have this cool feature and with for the 10 years or older kids that would try to kill them try not to make them bleed or you could make them passing through the truck but the truck driver will receive a major ticket for the attempt to kill them. And with that fix you don't receive any ban for this kind of violence.Last thing that i want to see if you could make a video about tuning the truck with accessories. Some people complains about the 6x4 or 6x2 configuration of the truck that they don't actually have any side skirts at this type of truck i don't mind it if they don't have but some peoples complains about it. i want to see much more complete tuning of the truck because i want to see the truck stairs what can you do to modify them like adding some lights on the stairs or you can choose the paint of the truck stairs like the chrome ones or just simple paint which i saw them on the aditional mirrors . It would be nice adding some aditional lights on the truck stairs. and about the handle door also how to modify them. if they are the same like the truck stairs it would be great or adding some aditional lights around them. and about tuning the truck could you also add some aditional lights on the bull-bar or on the front grill of the truck to give them our own personal effect at our own truck also if you could add some front mudguards at the front of the steering axles it would be great. I will Upload several picture to make you more clearly about this wish-first wish semaphores with timing and others:http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/221/semaforautocunumarator4f.jpg/http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/834/modificariciclurisemafo.jpg/http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/7598/semafor.jpghttp://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/809/329nb.jpg/http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/189/1112iq.jpg/-last one about the truck tuninghttp://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/16/dafxf105510f.jpg/http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/641/571tcb7083404f4f3f7e77e.jpg/SAME ROMANIAN GUY WHICH APPRECIATE YOUR AWESOME WORK AND SRRY FOR MY BAD ENGLISH HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND ME CAUSE I USE GOOGLE TRANSLATE

Hot scenery! Thats the thing, what we see on the roads! Not some loop of same objects every kilometer nor unrealistic weather that doesnt even make a need of wipers! Heh, good work SCS!

Plus i have an opinion about the vehicles... They just hmm... Seem like out of the showroom 10 minutes ago... What about some getting-old signs ? Dust-Rust-Paint losing saturation and needing a renovation time to time ?

SCS staff wanted to give you some tips that would have much in Euro Truck!

Effect of rain could be alternately strong and weak, and the road could have a nice effect "WELL WET" when trucks and cars passasem with wheels (or tires) shooting water up, and most importantly increase the reality of rain hitting the Windshield!

you could put new effects inside the truck as the character's hand and arm Flywheel Truck, and his on and off the radio when we select a Music!!

leave the truck at a speed much more real options Trucks in store!!

that is asking too much for you! but you could put pedestrians in the game (but not in any way to spoil the game! putting straight :-)!!

place new types of cars on the street, and increase vehicle traffic on the road!!!

hi scs I will say it's a good thing you do work with gauge Warning lights behind the trailer hit, but still have not seen fog lights are functional but hope to remedy this problem, I hope that our trucks and other brands to be posted more often and not only images but scania and other issues that I posted in images anteriaore and we will post again to fix them

1.http://s13.postimage.org/gal33xid3/Basculanta_pe_trailer.jpg

In the first image shown in court a construction company as a truck I want this car to be added in special transport

On the catch I wanted to show a daf during the night with bright lights and the lights meeting the top of the cab are off as I would like all the lights that are mounted on cars and the cabins are functional and trailers not only design

3.

http://s13.postimage.org/rbc3el25z/Lumini_Ceata.jpg

The fog lights and they be functional but has just when it is fog and them can be switched on separately or the passing lamp beam

4.http://s9.postimage.org/v0agypadb/Scara_de_la_cinsterna.jpg

The railing of runoff have been posted by other players before me so I came to her and like her I would change it

5.http://s9.postimage.org/3mhe4gkfj/Lumini_Traile.jpg

The end of the trailer lights I want to find all the trailers and also be functional at night we would come easier to take a turn when we see the end of trailers and also to overcome

scs dear I once posted this picture but above hoping you'll add them here I would like to add a game company logos to be found on car car where everyone wants to put flair in the middle, above or cabin door, we observed that a the player has given me the coment probably reply that I was not very explicit in making myself understood but I hope that now are understood by all who read

You are awesome ScS team keep up this amazing good work, but I want to tell you something, what I'm think about your work! Dear ScS don't worry for us, if you need Invest more time in ets2, to make this game incredible just don't worry... Make it all this things, which we were told of previous post as:

First advice:I just want tell you don't release this game in August release this game in December, because we want look full completed simulator game, with all this things what we said in previous post !

Second advice:Don't hurry to nowhere. It will be better release game later some months, because you will disappointing us, if you present unfinished game. NO WAY

Therefore don't WORRY WE WON'T DISAPPOINTED FROM YOU !!! YOU CAN DO THAT TO CREATE A AWESOME SIMULATOR AND RELEASE IT IN DECEMBER FOR MAKE IT ALL THIS THINGS WHAT WE SAID OF PREVIOUS POST!!!

To me multiplayer is not required but I have a suggestion.For all people who want to compete with each other,to make a server on which players will have own profile and a option to upload their current in-game status/info about money,skill,career progress,number of transported cargos,trucks etc. and compete in various categories.I think that this would be best and easiest way for the beginning. sorry for my english

Please make this wheel for Iveco pleaseLink:http://www.google.bg/imgres?q=iveco+stralis+wheel&um=1&hl=bg&sa=N&biw=1440&bih=778&tbm=isch&tbnid=2ZvIdilUe7tCAM:&imgrefurl=http://www.mascus.bg/Transportation/Used-Tractor-unit-4x2/Iveco-Stralis-AS440S43-Manual-Euro-3/9h7ga8ei.html&docid=i-m-Ou7GWLyCqM&itg=1&imgurl=http://www.mascus.com/image/product/large/7a5981cb/Iveco-Stralis-AS440S43-Manual,9084c4eb.jpg&w=600&h=450&ei=r5RLT5-UL4nJhAfSxIGHDg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=264&sig=110378798099254267673&page=1&tbnh=132&tbnw=182&start=0&ndsp=25&ved=1t:429,r:20,s:0&tx=72&ty=42